There are plans to establish a teleport in Saint Petersburg. Krasnoe Selo, a small city close to Saint Petersburg, has been pencilled in as a new member of the World Association of Teleports. A report in the Business Weekly Commersant outlines plans to provide international communications facilities for representatives of the foreign firms using the Research and Testing Complex of the Russian Defence Ministry. The proposed system will use Russian-made earth stations and Luch, Gorizont and Express-class Soviet satellites. This project is being run by a company called the Saint Petersburg Teleport, a joint-stock company registered on January 23. The partner companies are Mercury, Altair, Galaktika, Amru-Star. It also includes the conglomerates Otechestvo and Informkosmos and representatives of the local authorities. The planned launch date for the teleport is in either March or April. Russian-made satellites are notoriously unreliable and are based on the older C Band technology. The dominant standard in the West is Ku Band. Like everything here, however, it is better to believe in such developments only when they are actually in action.